>>11618296The people they encountered were likely the Beothuk people of Newfoundland, and Micmac people of eastern Canada. They labelled these people as “Skraelings” in a place they called Vinland. Further North in what’s now Labrador and Nunavut (which they called Markland) they did not mention any so called Skraelings. Archeological evidence has turned up iron deck nails in places like Baffin Island that predate walrus tusk ivory fish hooks which are a hallmark of Inuit culture, meaning one can assume the Norse were the first to there islands. Picrel is an abandoned Viking church in Greenland